A Guide to Library Research in Music

by Bayne, Pauline Shaw

• ISBN13: 9780810861480
• ISBN10: 0810861488
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-18
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

"A Guide to Library Research in Music introduces the process and techniques for researching and writing about music. This informative textbook provides examples of different types of writing, offers a thorough introduction to music literature, describes various information-searching methods and library-based organizational systems, and explores the wide array of music resources."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Pauline Shaw Bayne is assistant dean of libraries and professor in the School of Music at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
The Short Course: Music Research and Writing	p. 1
The Research Process	p. 5
Starting-Point Resources: Reference Books	p. 13
Starting-Point Resources: Journals	p. 21
Starting-Point Resources: Bibliographies	p. 31
A Case Study	p. 47
Scholarly Writing	p. 53
Writing Samples	p. 67
How To: Discover and Use Resources	p. 91
Browsing as a Discovery Strategy	p. 95
Databases: Structured for Searching	p. 103
Subject Searching in Library Catalogs: Controlled Vocabulary	p. 117
Subject Searching in Indexes and Abstracts	p. 131
Keyword Searching	p. 139
Related-Record Searching and Citation Indexes	p. 155
Other Discovery Methods: Experts and the Internet	p. 161
Using Thematic Catalogs	p. 173
Resources: The Literature of Music	p. 179
M: The Music - Scores and Recordings	p. 183
ML: Music Literature	p. 195
MT: Instruction and Study	p. 209
Form Subdivisions: A Selective List from the Library of Congress Subject Headings	p. 213
Outline of the Library of Congress M-Class	p. 217
Topical Guide to Music in the Library of Congress Classification	p. 223
Bibliographies by Topic in ML128	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 239
Author-Title Index	p. 259
Subject Index	p. 271
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